Meredith is a 17-year-old adolescent female who weighs approximately 82 pounds and is gaunt and frail with a skeletal appearance
Although she fears food and eating, she focuses on food by talking about food, collecting cookbooks, and cooking huge meals for others. Whenever she looks at herself in the mirror, her perception of her body is distorted in that she thinks she is disgustingly fat. Meredith is suffering from which of the following disorders?
a) anorexia nervosa
b) obesity
c) malnutrition
d) bulimia
a
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